PAULINE Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone, has been released from isolation after being treated for meningitis caused by the deadly virus.

The 39-year-old, from Cambuslang, near Glasgow, contracted Ebola last December and was treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London. She was re-admitted to the isolation unit at the hospital on October 9, months after she was thought to have fought off the often deadly infection.

At one point she was described as “critically ill” but the Royal Free announced today that she had been discharged from its care and transferred to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital to continue her recovery.